The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-25

dOod care Is reckoned to be the farm
er's best horse and COW doctor
Breed the horse first for strength and
endurance, and then for style.
The best breed is good care. good
water, good feed and good barn.
Mr.. w. d. Hoard suggests trial of
tight rubber bands on teats Of milk leak
ing cows.
Sheep and pigs are said to prefer dried
pea fodder to the best hay, and both
thrive on the food.
Sell the old hens if possible. They
won't pay for keeping over winter, and
will soon be unstable.
Don't consider your home prepared for
winter until the cellar is cleaned AMI put
in tidy, healthy state.
A practical farmer says: 4 highly
productive farm, with good fences, we'll
stocked and the taxes paid to date, and
free from mortgage, is desirable inner
itance.
clean and wholesome, and save the ma
nure, is simply to pillow the yard as often
as once month. This method is SIM
pie and effective.
1t is fallacy to milk cows but once a
winter. AS long as the cow is MIXED,
it should be twice day It is injurious
to both COW and milk to allow the milk
to remain SO long in the udder.
Mr. Waldo F. Brown, who has buried
potatoes each fall for a quarter of
century, says he never lost a bushel by
covering too deep; but many went to
waste on account of insufficient earth to
keep out frost. He adds: Don't put
the tubers in too large bulk.
1t is a we'll known fact that insect
pests attack the most vigorous trees in
the orchard, neglecting the compare
lively dry and juiceless branches of de-
caying trees. Another mistake is that
a healthy tree has the power of Kidding
itself of the scale Insects which infest it.
Inspection of healthy trees is eminently
necessary if the owner would keep them
profitable and in good shape.
ticks Magazine says that basic Stag,
the refuse of steel works, when freed
from iron and reduced to a powder proves
to be a valuable fertilizer principally on
account of the phosphorus it contains.
Mountains of black Stag have accumu.
lated about the iron and steel works in
England, and much in this country, all
of which can be proftably worked over
and made into valuable manure
Oil, says the american Agriculturist,
is fatal to every insect it touches, and
sulphur is very offensive to them. A
mixture of four ounces of lard and one
of sulphur, we'll rubbed together, and
with the addition of one ounce of
kerosene oil and one drachm of creosote
will be found an excellent remedy
against all sorts of insect vermin, while
the liberal use of kerosene oil on poultry
roosts will free the fowls of their tor
mentors.
The garden needs more manure. This
fact should always be kept in mind, and
every bit of waste that is likely to have
any value, mechanical or otherwise, as
manure, should be added to the heap 1t
is wonderful what lot OF manure may be
got together by those who keep this al
ways before them. Everybody, of course,
should keep pigs to eat up the waste
pig stye should be blended all the other
waste matters of the garden and house
On the approach of winter provision
should be made for dust baths for hens
when the soil is locked with frost. A
sufficient quantity of dry loan should be
secured and placed in barrels or boxes to
SdCISly al pOoS1OlO NOL1dlSAS' A1C11S ChJOJ
rolling and wallowing in dry earth in the
sun, and it is also desirable to spread
under the rOosts to receive the drop
pings, serving as a deodorizer when the
droppings are collected, as they should
be, SO that the hen house may be kept
reasonably clean.
A whitewash that will not rub off is
made by Stacking onehalf bushel lime
with boiling water, keeping it covered
during the process. Strain it and add
peck of salt dissolved in warm water,
three pounds of ground rice put in boil
ing water, and boiled to a thin paste one
half pound powdered Spanish whiting,
and a pound of clear glue dissolved in
warm water. Mix these we'll together
and let the mixture stand for several
DAYS. Keep the wash thus prepared in
kettle and when used put it on as hot as
possible with painters or whitewashers'
brushes.
A good many farmers have the idea,
says the P1Oughman, that milk is not Just
right for pigs until it is soured. This is
q very serious mistake. No possible good
can come from souring it, but very seri-
Gus harm. After you take out the cream
and water, the most that remains is
caseine and sugar of milk. Both are
valuable. But when you sour 1T you
change the sugar of milk into Tactic acid,
and lose nearly half the entire value of